Chapter 9: The Pursuit of the Upper Echelons 2
"What's the solution?" Herman asked.
"When do you think this door will open?
It's not just when we change places every month.
But at that time, they will release anesthetic gas,
I estimate that in order to completely anesthetize us, the gas will be released for a while.
But if we find a way to avoid the anesthetic gas,
We'll be able to wait until the door opens on its own. Lin An said.
"How do you get away from that gas?" Herman asked.
Lin An stood up and picked up a piece of metal pipe that was left behind when he made a ladder.
Then he looked at the metal wall on the wall.
"We smashed a hole out of here and used this to breathe the air outside.
It's a clumsy idea, but it's worth a try. ”
Herman stood up and knocked on the metal wall, making a not-so-muffled sound.
"This door shouldn't be too thick, but I want to use this axe to make a hole,
It's still a little difficult. Herman said.
"Let's sleep first, we'll try tomorrow, it's not too tired."
The next day, as the sound of machinery sounded, the hearty meal of the entire platform came down.
The two seem to have regained their eating appearance on the first day they came to this level.
Taste all the delicacies as far as your eye can see.
It's just that when the platform was lowered, the two were just about to leave the big pit in front of them.
The middle-aged man on the second floor actually set up the ladder on the platform.
"What the fuck are you going to do?" Herman shouted at the middle-aged man who was climbing up.
"I knew you were going to run out, I heard what you said."
The middle-aged man said hastily as he climbed the ladder.
"What should we do?" At this time, Herman suddenly asked Lin An in a panic.
Lin An would understand that Herman was not lying, and he really hadn't killed a roommate.
Otherwise, he would not have been so flustered in the face of this person.
Ke Linan was a waiter at the hotel yesterday, and he didn't have the experience of pushing people down ladders.
"I don't know, do you want him to come up?" Lin An asked rhetorically.
"No, you know, we have a very difficult time to get to where we are today,
One more is one more trouble, not to mention that we don't know him at all. Herman said.
But just as the two were talking, the middle-aged man on the second floor was about to climb up.
Lin An hurriedly picked up the axe on the ground, raised it and threatened the people below.
"If you come up, I'll hack you to death!"
The middle-aged man looked at Lin An, was stunned for a moment, and quickly got up again.
The ladder was erected in the pit, and there was still some distance from the upper floor, and the two of them couldn't reach it at all.
Seeing that the middle-aged man was already approaching the top of the ladder, he was ready to jump up to it.
Lin An suddenly remembered a scene from the movie.
That's Glenn's black roommate was going to climb up with the help of a rope, and the people on top...
Lin An didn't think much about it, took off his pants directly, and contracted his stomach vigorously at the middle-aged man below.
I saw a pile of disgusting excrement fall on the middle-aged man's face.
He screamed and let go of his hand and fell straight down.
Lin An and Herman glanced at each other, but they didn't speak.
Because they know in their hearts that, as people at the top, they are all beginning to change.
They became the kind of people they hated the most when they were in the lower echelons.
The kind of person who, without any reason, wants to suppress the right of the lower classes to better conditions.
They finally understand the mentality of having this right.
After the two were silent for a while, Herman walked up to Lin An and picked up the axe in his hand.
Then he swung his axe and slammed the exposed metal into the wall.
In this prison pit that can distort human nature, the only way to escape is to escape.
Herman swung the axe vigorously, and soon the metal began to dent.
It's just that the sharpness of the axe has decreased a lot with the use of the two of them in the past few days.
After Herman worked for a while, Lin An took the axe and continued to smash the wall.
After the two alternated for a while, finally the sunken part of the metal became more and more fragile.
With Herman's arms, which were obviously much stronger than Lin An, he swung the axe against the wall again.
Suddenly, the axe was embedded in the metal, and Lin An immediately got up and looked at the wall.
Herman used a lot of force to pull out the axe embedded in the metal.
The two of them looked at the narrow slash mark.
Although it was only pitch black at the back, the air, which was completely different from the inside of the prison, blew in through the cracks.
Lin An picked up the hollow iron pipe of the bed frame and compared.
In order to penetrate the iron pipe through this gap, the gap needs to be further expanded.
Seeing hope, the two excitedly picked up the axe and smashed it again.
It wasn't until the platform suddenly rose back that the two realized that they had been working for a long time.
Herman put the axe down and stood hunched over in place, panting.
Lin An picked up the hollow square iron again, and with all his strength, the iron pipe could basically be stuffed into the gap.
Lin An picked up the axe again and began to smash the iron pipe into the gap with the flat side.
Soon, an iron pipe that could breathe air outside the tract was finally completed.
The two of them laughed, leaned against the wall, and sat weakly on the edge of the wall.
For the rest of the day, they just need to eat and drink well every day.
Then wait for the end of the month to come, and there is hope of escaping.
Just when the two of them weren't happy for long, suddenly the cell on this floor lit up red.
The two looked at each other, and a hint of unease flashed across their faces.
Then the temperature inside the cell suddenly began to rise.
As the temperature rose, the two of them also smelled the familiar smell of anesthetics.
"They can see us." Herman said as he struggled to his feet.
At this time, he was not only a little dizzy, but his whole person was already soaked with sweat.
The temperature of the cell has risen faster than ever before.
When Herman got up, he tried to escape the anesthesia with the iron pipe he had just made.
However, because the temperature of the cell rose rapidly, Herman had just touched the iron pipe, and his hands were burned and blistered.
"!" Lin An sat by the wall, could only scold this sentence, and passed out completely.
A screeching mechanical sound sounded.
However, this means that the sound of enjoying food cannot make Lin An, who is extremely drowsy, wake up completely.
Lin An struggled, and could only crawl a few steps on the ground, but he suddenly tripped over something.
Erasing it with his hand was a lying man, who subconsciously thought was Herman.
"Hurry up, the food is coming." Lin An said groggily.
Then Lin An stepped over the lying man and struggled to climb to the platform.
His vision was still blurry, and he could only touch it with his hands.
He touched the bowl with the food, and was about to pick up something, only to find that the plate was empty.
Lin An tentatively touched other plates again, but still couldn't touch the food.
A feeling of uneasiness suddenly struck, which also made Lin An more sober.
He struggled to regain consciousness, and finally his vision began to clear.
When Lin An saw the things on the platform clearly, he was stunned.
Because there was no food on it except for the dishes that had been damaged.
Lin An slowly raised his head and looked at the numbers on the wall.
The big number 170, like a gallows, stood in front of him.